This week on hbook.com… Tonight is the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards ceremony (it’s like our Oscars and National Book Awards rolled into one), followed by tomorrow’s Horn Book at Simmons Colloquium. If you can’t make it to Boston, follow @HornBook and look for the hashtags #BGHB16 #HBAS16 all weekend. Can you tell we’re excited? Get […]

Combine elements from Nosy Crow’s fairy-tale app series (The Three Little Pigs, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow White, and Goldilocks and Little Bear) to stage your own once-upon-a-time puppet show with The Complete Fairytale Play Theater (September 2016; iOS only). Start a new story and give it a title and […]

Similar in structure to Toca Boca’s Toca Band (but both a little less substantial and a little less…out there), Melody Jams (Melody Jams Inc., April 2016; iOS only) lets you rock out with your own hand-picked backup band. Fill up to five band spots by selecting from twelve monster musicians on instruments such as guitar, […]

These engaging audio productions of four excellent historical nonfiction titles give teens another entry point into the profound (and profoundly personal) tales of courage and determination they relate. Steve Sheinkin‘s Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War uses Ellsberg as a focal point to tell the story of the Vietnam […]

This week on hbook.com… RIP Anna Dewdney, 1965–2016 Calling Caldecott is back! Which books do you want to see CC cover this year? From the September/October 2016 issue of The Horn Book Magazine: “A Second Look: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry” by Kekla Magoon Reviews of the Week: Picture Book: Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn by […]

I was just looking something up in the November/December 2015 HB Mag and spotted these two YA novels — with their matchy-matchy titles and covers — on facing pages: Yikes. Think the authors know something we don’t?

This column is part of a series of recommended board book roundups, formerly published twice a year, now published every season. You can find the previous installments here. Don’t miss Viki Ash’s primer “What Makes a Good Board Book?” from the March/April 2010 Horn Book Magazine. Here are board books to enjoy with your toddler […]